La Prude

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...after
L’Enfant prodigue (1736), a variation of the prodigal son theme, he adapted William Wycherley’s satiric Restoration drama
The Plain-Dealer to his purpose, entitling it
La Prude; he based
Nanine (1749) on a situation taken from Samuel Richardson’s novel
Pamela, but all without success. The court spectacles he directed gave him a taste for scenic...